Hey folks, Harry here... The Kidd beat me by 3 seconds earlier today with this story. I hadn't seen that Blueprint online, so I let his story stay - but throughout the day - we've had additional JAEGER blue-prints released - and there's something you need to know about that Viral footage.

It is VIRAL footage. If you look at the longer video, you'll see that it is dated to next year... This film doesn't take place next year. But 50 years beyond that. This viral, is part of the "HISTORY" for the storyline in the film. The style of the film is in no way related to CLOVERFIELD, these will be images seen on screens or as memories in the actual film, not the action. I would also shelf any thoughts that this will resemble the trailer in ANY way. I'm betting that before THE HOBBIT, they'll show some of the Jaeger on Kaiju action - as the film is spectacle filled and I doubt seriously they're going to HIDE what will get them full blown geek erections around the globe.

I've seen all these Jaegers in color & as beautiful macquettes - along with the Kaiju. As this stuff hits - you folks... you're gonna freak, this is next gen geek entertainment. Could open up an entire world of new cinema. CAN NOT WAIT!

Harry - Now here's what Billy wrote - not really knowing anything beyond what he's seen below. Again, that's ORIGIN of the initial scenario that creates the WORLD that the movie takes place in.

Things have been awfully quiet on the PACIFIC RIM front following what I heard was a pretty incredible presentation at this year's San Diego Comic-Con... that is, until today, when Warner Bros. unleashed a ton of new viral material for Guillermo del Toro's summer tentpole set to arrive next year. Could they be priming us for a trailer debut in front of THE HOBBIT perhaps? Hmmm...

Where to even begin...

How about with the leaked memo (via Total Film) between the Great Britain Air Command and the Pan Pacific Defense Corps detailing the nomination of some pretty exceptional pilots to report for duty immediately in order to deal with this kaiju problem that is beyond regional at this point...?

From there, it only makes sense to get an idea as to what these Jaegers being referred to are, which gives Wired the opportunity to present schematics for building one of these massive robots, which seems to be the only way to even try combatting this threat to any level of success...

Now that we know what we're dealing with on both sides of the equation, it's probably best to establish some type of warning system in the event that a kaiju decides to surface. People are going to need some type of notification to know that evacuation isn't going to do them any good, because they're faced with imminent danger...

And right on cue... it's time for a kaiju attack, which seems like the sensical climax to what the day has been building to anyway.

We only get flashes of the monsters del Toro is playing with this time out, but the destruction is front and center on display, giving us at least a sense of the stakes for PACIFIC RIM.

I'd imagine the coming teaser will follow a similar tone in order to whet our appetities for destruction, but we may get a little more robot and a little more monster to grab our attention with authority this much in advance of July 12.

Right down to five fingers per hand? That's so stupid, and breaks the illusion of possibility even more than the giant monsters. A movie like this succeeds (critically anyway) if its plausible. Making the Jaegers humanlike, and shoehorning in the rational for why afterwards, is backwards. Would have been better if they designed the giant robots for function, and seen what they looked like then.
This looks like a mashup of a million ideas already done, with shakycam thrown in. I'm not seeing anything exciting here.
Just afraid this will ruin the US audience for the upcoming Godzilla film.
This is a pure Del Toro vanity project.

i know what you mean. i was hoping for a more Mazinger Z or Raiden influenced look, but i am getting a little bit of a Tetsujin 28 vibe from the design of the robot.
i think it's pretty cool that they are actually calling them Kaiju. it'll be interesting to see what Hollywood and Del Toro do with this genre, especially with the budget they have. hope it's not all shaky cam, that shit stinks.
@carmenaventura- if you're looking for rational and functionality in a Kaiju movie, you just don't get the point.

This is as close to a Evangelion movie as we'll ever get. I mean come on! This just sounds like Evangelion. But I will admit the robot design is somewhat simple. But maybe it was rushed to deal with the threat from the Angels...I mean kaiju.
Either way, it won't be better than Robot Jox.

SHINGI IS A GIANT WEAK FUCKING PUSSY. No one outside of Japan can relate to him. What penis wielding creature does NOT want to pilot the mecha (or slaved biological entity)? Thats the problem, deal with it. Or grow some balls and watch some Getter Robo or Mazinkaiser SKL. I love the designs of Eva and the esoterica but it is the TWILIGHT of anime mecha shows. Hail Go Nagai.

So, there's exaggerated interlacing, directional blur, weird VHS filters and noise, fake bad satellite reception, selective pixelllation... all that stuff that never happens to a file. Everything is mixed on the same clips and when the lower-third is affected by a bug, the rest of the video isn't? Cheap.
Also, I've rarely seen Video Copilot's After-Effects free news template so unchanged in a professional work.

Not many people are talking about this film... yet. But with Del Toro at the helm, and holy shit huge feakin' action sequences with robots and Del Toro's own screaming monsters duking it out, this film has big-time potential.
"Pan's Labyrinth" is still one of my all-time favorite films, so I'm a big fan of Del Toro.
Hope "Pacific Rim" knocks it out of the park.
And maybe... into outer space?

I fear that the pilots may be compromised by a viscous psychic attack from the cosmic god of all evil. However, the brave slightly sentient Giant Robo would be resistant. While Daisaku Kusama is swallowing his own tongue as his world view is torn inside out Robo would deliver an atomic punch to Cthulhu's cephalopodedic dome, than come the finger rockets...

I wouldn't go that far. I'd venture to say Gundam Wing was more like Twilight. Anybody can relate to Shinji if you put yourself in his perspective. Kid was 14 and had a fucked up past. He literally saw his mother dissolve into a biological machine as kid. Dude is going to have some issues. Plus, the "reboots" he is much more ballsier. A live action Eva movie would work quite well, regardless if it's premise would be similar to Pacific Rim's (or rather vice versa). So we may still see it one day.
Anywho, Del Toro is going to make something real special here. Can't wait for the full blown trailer.

It is that they are controlled by the "PON" system of human-machine interface, linking the mind of the pilot with the body of the mecha. The same command that tells your arm to move moves the arm of the mecha, so in order for this to work it is best to have the Jaeger shaped like a humanoid rather than a lobster. This mecha control system originated in the "Bioroids" from "Southern Cross", seen in America as the second storyline of Robotech. Not RobotJox as some very UNcleaver leaky anus is about to type

Asuka is no Bella. Plus the mythology Anno created is spectacular, (giant glowing sepherot floating in the sky? whoah) Still, Shinji is a really hard sell to me. I come from the school of hard life growing up means a history of drug abuse ultra-violence and womanizing.

This goes beyond shaky to short-circuiting. On the ground, in the air, before the attacks... making EVERY camera ultra-shaky and clippy and outright malfunctioning goes past reality to unreality.
In reality, there would be some perfectly still, perfectly clear footage.
I like the teasing aspect of this all-shaky early stuff, but the real thing would have some perfectly ordinary footage. Remember 9/11, and how ordinary the footage looked? It wasn't shaky or distorted, it was frighteningly unreal things happening in plain sight.
Hope they work that into the film and/or later teasers. I think that would give it the tone that would lock audiences into the right mindset.

I will quite possibly be rooting for the monsters.
Really, we have an already-overpopulated world with political empires using giant robots to enforce their grip on the world. In that fantasy scenario, my sympathy is with the natural world.
It would help if they made the kaiju hyper-intelligent and with intelligent malicious intent. Having the combined worldwide forces of science and the military matched against just dumb wild animals won't make me cheer for the good guys. Starship Troopers had the black satire to make it work; if this is earnest, it could actually erode the fun of watching the beatdown.
Still, quibbling aside, so very cool that they're making this film, and del Toro looks like a dynamite man for the job. Hope this will get him both big-studio respect and a future Lovecraft film. I expect it will also make me wish he'd been able to stay with the Hobbit. I would still rather see his version than Jackson's.

If this movie winds up being what I think it will (and desperately hope it will), then I think Del Toro will rise to penultimate HEROIC and ICONIC status in my mind.
It doesn't even have the be the best movie ever made nor he the best directory or any of the contest related nonsense...
I'm referring to one of "us" bringing these giant monster movies back to the fore.
Highly looking forward to both this and Edwards Godzilla...
Oh man...these are bright days indeed for those of us who sat glued to our pre-cable saturday morning tv sets watching any number of wonderfully campy (tho utterly serious to me at the time) giant monster movies/shows...Godzilla, Ultraman, Rodan, Mothra, King Ghidora, and all the other monsters I so dearly loved from childhood to this day and on...
needless to say...I cannot wait for this one..

I haven't played the game - have to look that one up - but now that you mention it, looking back at GDT's track record, no reason to assume he won't take a nuanced approach to this. Lots of tragic elements to go around, with the losses that both humans and nature will endure in the film.

Do the krauts get one? Because if so they have to name it Jagermeister and have the offspring of Merkel pilot it, making the tough-but-fair decisions Europe needs when being faced by giant, menacing, whatever the hell those things are.
Anyway, I hope the movie is fun. What I don't want to see are the critters getting the shit kicked out of them. I'm much more interested in watching mechs get wasted and humanity on the edge of being wiped out. Show me mech pilots and soldiers of the world dying. That's what I loved about Spielberg's War of the Worlds; we weren't necessarily going to make it, and I found that thrilling. Also I'd love to see some nations turn on others, using their mechs against weaker armies. The idea of all mankind uniting because super monsters arrive is pretty fucking silly. Nevah hoppin.
You know what I'd find especially gratifying? A bunch of PETA protesters demanding humane treatment of the monsters, then getting fucking pasted. Yes, please show me that.
Can someone enlighten me as to the origin of the monsters? And are they out to eat people and make more little monsters asap? Or is it just rampage until killed?

But Del Toros use of CG in blade 2 was piss poor.
One thing Im certain of..even if its the worst movie ever made, Harry is gonna big it up and then blame every one else for not understanding it if it bombs.

On horse back you hunt giant monsters, climb up them like a fucking bean stock strike at their weak spots and watch them go down. Their death's are very cinematic and designed to make you feel like a complete ass hole for killing them. Amazeballs.

Just reading all the comments you guys are posting is gettin' me all fired up! Does anyone else think that Japan should have the most bad-ass mech? According to the blueprints, their mech seems kinda clunky & quaint compared to the others. Can anyone break it down for me? Maybe it's referencing some old mechs I'm not aware of; I'm much more versed in monster lore myself. And Cthulhu would destroy all humanity--all existence, in fact--mechs or no mechs.

EVA is the Twilight of Anime. There is no denying it. But the story similarities between this and EVA is striking. EVA was just the first thing that popped into my head after looking at the designs and watching the video. Personally I'd rather see a Gundam movie.
I'm surprised to see so many people have seen Robot Jox. I know when viewed today it looks really stupid, but it's still one of my favorites. And the sequel Robot Wars. Come on! That's B-movie greatness.
And everyone needs to play Shadow of the Colossus. Best game ever made for PS2 and the HD upgrade it got was very well done. Shame it would never work as a movie.
Oh! And I'm calling it now. Half way through this movie the main characters partner pilot pulls a goose. Then he gets stuck with the chick that hates him but has some hot sexual tension for. During the final battle they admit they love each other and screw in the cockpit. Their release of Love/Orgasmic energy superpowers the Jaeger allowing it to kill every kaiju on the planet. Except one! (For the sequel)
Cue Credits.

Maybe it's just me, but at least two direct mecha lifts came to me on top of Coyote Tango and its Tetsujinness: Cherno Alpha is sporting a tweaked version of the head of the Knight of Gold, from 'The Five Star Stories.' (There might have been a Gundam suit with the same head, but I'm not sure right this second.) And Striker Eureka is rocking a somewhat Patlabor-ish look in general. Plus Gipsy Danger as a super economy sized Iron Man...okay, I REALLY want to see the finished versions of these things, just so I can blast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxKhhMdbU5I
and geek the hell out.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/44426
even if this project went the way of the tasmanian tiger, I think everyone would like to know what happened. I mean there is some very huge statements made in the article:
anyone else frustrated by this?

People love his stuff but I found most of his work completely boring. Yes, he has cool practical monster work in his films but that's about it. His shoots, editing and characters are always completely boring and stiff. He is a typical hollywood director as far as I'm concern. I literally fell asleep during devil's backbone.
I still wanna see a trailer to this though.

I know it's kind of personal, but sometimes one needs to go to the source. It is my observation that allot of these problems develop very early. Also, do you believe that you are allergic to gluten? That's an important one...

How 'bout, it tore through San Francisco. Happens to be right next door to the Port of Oakland, one of the busiest in the US. Which has a massive shit-ton of cranes. Tugs could float the corpse right under four or five of the damn things. Lift, load. Now I ask you: Is this where your suspension of belief is drawn? We're talking about giant fucking monsters fighting giant fucking robots, here.

You've got a giant robot with arms, ideal for transporting giant Kaiju corpses. Maybe it could throw the thing directly into a volcano for easy disposal. Or kick it's head out to sea and robo-shit down it's neck.

I simply have to shake my head and laugh when film fans express such concern over something so inconsequential to the story trying to be told.
Also, are people really complaining about shaky cam use in a viral video? This is the start of a viral marketing campaign designed - like all viral campaigns - to tease the hell out of people, for Christ's sake. Why anyone would believe that this is some sort of indicator for how the film itself will look is beyond me.

Del Toro is a mediocre director at best - his visual effects are cool, but his movies just aren't that good. Blade was cheesy, both Hellboys were cheesy, even Pan's Labyrinth was a bit "off." I couldn't have been more relieved when he left The Hobbit.